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Unibrow Radio
by The Unibrow
The audio home of The Unibrow, arts and culture magazine est 2025.
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UR-14: The Haunting of Smithsonian Castle (A Ghost in the Gallery Series)
A few years ago in Paris, I found myself in the Montmartre Cemetery on a sunny afternoon. It’s not as renowned as Père Lachaise, where people flock to pay their respects to Jim Morrison or Oscar Wilde. Montmartre is a bit more quiet, which may be an odd thing to say about a cemetery. I sat on a...
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UR-13: The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art Needed an Editor; Jessica Hundley Took the Task
The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art is finally open; George Lucas and his wife, Melody Hobson's new opus. The building is stunning, it's a mothership, a cloud, a home to a new way to see art in America. We have been about 4x already. We wrote about it. Please read. But today we wanted to talk to...
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UR-12: The Unexplained Mystery of Los Angeles Philharmonic (A Ghost in the Gallery Series)
Before I sat down with the LA Philharmonic to talk about their ghost stories, I found myself thinking about the last time I had been onstage. It was at the Legion of Honor in San Francisco, in the museum's beautiful and, at times, rather eerie theater. Many of our usual readers will know that I...
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UR-11: Bea Scaccia and the Weight of Italian Art History
What a time to be talking to Bea Scaccia. Yes, she was featured in our Issue 01, so we have been familiar and friends for quite some time now. But she is opening a new solo show, Groomed, at Gagosian Gallery in New York, curated by Francesco Bonami, which is certainly a sign that her trajectory…
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UR-10: Everything Now and an Evolving Los Angeles City-State with Author Rosecrans Baldwin
This summer, I was feeling a little down on my time in Los Angeles. I must admit, it comes in waves; some days I love this city and some days I'm wondering how I, one, all, could tolerate a 2-hour, 14 mile commute on a Monday. There are moments where I feel like I wouldn't want to be anywhere on...
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UR-09: Brow to Brow on Our Favorite Upcoming Exhibitions, Widow's Bay and Diet Coke vs Coke Zero
We are really excited about this one, because the staff never just records our editorial conversations for the world to hear. So that is what we are doing today, as our founder Evan Pricco and editor-at-large Shaquille Heath talk about the Fall 2026 exhibition highlights that has them excited.…
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UR-08: Robin F. Williams Loves that Nitty-Gritty American Stuff
Sometimes the best podcasts are the most unexpected ones, and that is what happened in our conversation with the acclaimed painter, Robin F. Williams. What began as an interview for our Issue 03 that will be out in the fall, coinciding with Williams' solo presentation with PPOW Gallery for Frieze...
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UR-07: The Ghost of Jane Has Never Left the Building (A Ghost in the Gallery Series)
The main reason I think I love art so much is because it's full of mystery. I've long had a soft spot for the unusual. Somewhere between Are You Afraid of the Dark? and Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events, I realized my fascination with the unexplained, and I’ve been chasing that...
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UR-06: Saša Bogojev on CAN and the Future of Art Fairs
I don't remember the year I met Saša Bogojev, but I know that he and I both were finding our way in the world of contemporary art through a small passageway that was emerging in a tunnel called Street Art. I think he and I both saw that there was a camaraderie, a friendship, a bond in that scene...
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UR-05: 30 Years of Fredericks & Freiser Gallery
When Jessica Fredericks and Andrew Freiser founded Fredericks & Freiser Gallery in 1996, the art world was a different place. New York was a different place! What surviving as a gallery meant back then has changed drastically in some respects, but the core principles remain: show what you believe...
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UR-04: Robert Montgomery and the Poetry in Empty Palaces
Many think of the past in smells, sounds, joys and fears. Recently, I sat down with Robert Montgomery on a stage during the Nuart Aberdeen festival, to try and put words to memories, to think about how language can be an asset for describing our past. Montgomery is a poet, installation artist,...
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UR Fiction-03: Eirinie Carson and a Reading from "Bloodfire, Baby"
Welcome to Unibrow Radio Fiction, a new series where the editors of The Unibrow speak to authors, share selected readings, and begin to think about the art being fiction and narrative writing. Today's guest coincides with Issue 02, with an excerpt and interview with Eirinie Carson and her new...
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UR-02: Shepard Fairey on Creating Modular Frequencies
Shepard Fairey is one of the most famous artists in the world, and if you think about it, there aren't many artists who are famous in their lifetimes. In times' past, artists didn't get to live with their fame, their notoriety, the praise and scrutiny that comes with making art seen by man. We…
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UR-01: Christopher Anderson and the Future of Photojournalism
Christopher Anderson is an award-winning photographer and contributor to The New York Times Magazine and The New Yorker, as well as the Photographer in Residence at New York Magazine from 2011-2014. A member of Magnum Photos from 2005 to 2023, Anderson is the author of nine monographs, including...
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167: Nathan Bell
When Nathan Bell announced his latest solo show was to be called "Conversations with Inanimate Objects" and it would showcase a series of what he called "guidance paintings," I was hooked. I've known Nathan for years but mostly as a designer. So being able to speak to him in this context, inside...
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166: Salomón Huerta
We kick off Season 20 of The Unibrow's Radio Juxtapoz podcast with a conversation with Mexican-American, Los Angeles-based painter, Salomón Huerta. What started as scheduling a conversation with Huerta around the opening of his solo show Stillness, which opened at Harper's in NYC in the spring…
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165: Dan Nadel, author of "Crumb: A Cartoonist's Life"
Author and curator Dan Nadel is a hero of mine and a bit of a renaissance man. He was the publisher of the brilliant and influential PictureBox for decades and was a champion of much of what Juxtapoz was founded on but took it to a whole new level of intricate historical research and creating a...
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164: Shyama Golden
"'Too Bad, So Sad, Maybe Next Birth' was a phrase my parents would say whenever something was out of my control and didn’t go exactly according to plan," Shyama Golden wrote on the subject of her new solo show of the same name for PM/AM in London. "It feels to me like a short phrase that embodies...
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163: Corita Kent's Legacy with Nellie Scott
The first thing I said to Nellie Scott, Executive Director of the Corita Art Center in downtown Los Angeles that preserves and promotes Corita Kent’s art, teaching, and passion for social justice, was that I wish we didn't need to do this. I wish Corita Kent's work had already done its work, that...
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162: Adele Renault
Adele Renault's studio is an old converted Korean church in Los Angeles. It's a large, fascinating old building just down the road from some of the biggest gallery names in the world like Zwirner, but here, there is a quiet hum of the 10 freeway and a massive painting area that could almost be an...
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161: Katie Merz
“No hierarchies are implied.” If you need to know anything about Katie Merz, start with that. The Brooklyn-born and bred artist has been playing on the streets both metaphorically and recently literally, for most of her life. Hierarchies would have got in the way if she let them. Art was all...
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160: David Altmejd
The serpent has been around for a quite some time. It's biblical stature as the representation of the temptation of the devil to Eve in the Garden of Eden has often been part of Western thought, but the asp was a powerful symbol in ancient Egyptian culture, representing "divine authority of the...
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159: Noelia Towers
Barcelona-born Noelia Towers has been painting a form deconstructing power structures for years now, but it seems like over the last few years her subject matter has received a heightened attention. And importance. Not like a typical activist painter, Noelia is placing herself right in the center...
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158: Mark Whalen
Mark Whalen has been with us for almost 20 years, from the streets of Sydney, Australia to a new life of a sculpture studio in Los Angeles. Now it is time we are with him: after losing his home in the Altadena fire of January 2025, I got in touch with Mark about a visit to The Unibrow's Radio...
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157: Daniel Gibson
Daniel Gibson is a painter of the California landscape, a visualizer of a certain kind of desert oasis dreamt of in a surreal dream as opposed to a place you have been. But to be honest, I wasn't aware of this fantastical world of desert sun, flora and fauna in Gibson's work; I just wanted it all...
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156: Nehemiah Cisneros
There have been many iterations of the man we know as Nehemiah Cisneros, but right now, in the most moment, he is most himself. If you know Nehemiah, he is a thoughtful, insightful and evolving figure in art who is a filmmaker in a painters' body. We met him as AUGOR, the graffiti writer who took...
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155: Hannah Lupton Reinhard
Hannah Lupton Reinhard's paintings always have a consistency in intent, and yet an interpretation of intention seems to be flexible for some, perhaps even malleable. The theme of moving goal posts to secure your own meaning is rife in modern society, perhaps more so than ever as we all have the...
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154: Jeremy Geddes
It took Melbourne's Jeremy Geddes over 5 years to make his newest solo show, Periphery, for Thinkspace Projects, and it's been over a decade since he last had a show all together. He is a patient man, a man who loves the details, making personal and universal works that are about the human...
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153: Umar Rashid
It isn't often we invite a guest to come onto Radio Juxtapoz for a second time, but Umar Rashid is beyond an exception. He's a friend with something to talk about, a new show, yes, The Kingdom of the Two Californias. La Época del Totalitarismo Part 2 at BLUM in Los Angeles... but we are also...
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152: Danielle Mckinney
Something that will always exist, regardless of political landscapes and the changing of societal norms, is the need to honor space. Danielle Mckinney knows something about space, and waiting, and watching, and observing. As a photographer she practices these disciplines, and when she began to...
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151: Koak
San Francisco's Koak has always been a mystery to us. Yes, of course she is an internationally exhibited painter and the cover of the Juxtapoz Fall 2024 Quarterly in time with her solo show at Perrotin in Paris in September, but that there is something non-era-specific about the work she makes....
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150: Anthony Cudahy
Anthony Cudahy is at an interest time in his life when we spoke for the Radio Juxtapoz podast: he hadn't been in the studio for a bit. And who could blame him? He had concurrent solo shows open at Grimm and Hales in NYC, and his first museum show, Spinneret, had opened Ogunquit Museum of American...
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149: Matt Bollinger
Matt Bollinger's aim is both to define America but also define himself. Okay, okay, that seems like a wide net to throw, and it maybe it even seems simplistic, but there is his contemporary approach to social realistic, Ashcan School style that has made Bollinger one of the most interesting…
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148: Patrisse Cullors
As a co-founder of the Black Lives Matter movement, and a career as an artist, writer, abolitionist, Patrisse Cullors is one of the most influential figures in contemporary culture of the 21st century. What the Los Angeles-born Cullors has found in art is something quite fascinating in contrast…
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147: Christian Quin Newell
The first time we encountered the works of London-based Christian Quin Newell was at his stunning Earth altar solo show at Public Gallery. Newell works in an otherworldly realm, dreamscapes if you will (more on this in a second). His newest solo show, The Way, at the same London-based Public...
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146: Hannah Wilson
When you open up the Fall 2024 Juxtapoz Quarterly, our colleague Kristin Farr brings up a caveat when looking (or hearing) about the works of Hannah Wilson. "Embedded in this interview is a required watchlist: Motion pictures that catalyze the arresting paintings of Hannah Wilson." What perhaps…
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145: Ken Nwadiogbu
We often said with Juxtapoz that the power of art is to make people feel engaged, feel good and feel ownership over both their community and the world-at-large. Art makes you feel alive, makes you thoughtfully engaged, whether the art challenges you or makes you just have a smile on your face.…
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144: Asbestos
We often ask ourselves how art can heal or make us better understand the world around us. It's the function of art, isn't it? We may not have a universal or agreed upon definition of what art is or means, but we have an understanding that art is an expression of creativity in response to both...
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143: Jaime Muñoz
A new season of the Radio Juxtapoz podcast is here, and we start with something that feels quite relevant as we cross-over into the halfway mark of 2024. The concept is this: Truth is a Moving Target, and the artist and exhibition it pertains to is Southern California's Jaime Muñoz who just…
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142: DULK
Continuing our series of podcasts from the Crystal Ship festival in Ostend, Belgium, Radio Juxtapoz' Doug Gillen sat down with Spanish muralist and painter DULK to capture the essence of his practice that has long featured wild animals in a new urban context. The Radio Juxtapoz podcast is hosted…
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141: ACHES
Ah, its nice to have a little color talk here on the podcast. Dublin, Irelands' ACHES is a theorist of color. He combines a multitude of ideas and styles into his work, whether graffiti, murals, painting, graphic design, all into an aesthetic that is deservedly his and one of the more unique in…
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140: Wisam Salsaa of Banksy's Walled Off Hotel in Palestine
It was always as much as an intervention as it was a hotel. When Banksy opened the Walled Off Hotel in Bethlehem in Palestine in the West Bank in 2017, it was met by both amazement and a bit of shock. In what, in a way, like, "Wait, he opened an actual hotel in the West Bank? By the wall? How did...
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139: Cindy Bernhard
When Cindy Bernhard found the cats she found herself. That is the short summary of the story. During the pandemic, and years of trying to find her artistic voice, Chicago-based Bernhard painted a cat in her work and found that voice, that direction, that narrative, the character that was her but...
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138: FAILE
The thing about FAILE is that they are always trying to take you somewhere you feel like you have been but may have dreamt. Since coming into street art at the pivotal moment of the early 2000s and their various explorations into installation, muralism, nightlife and fine art, you recongnize the...
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137: Katie Green
As these things happen when we are on the road, we met a Canadian in Ostend, Belgium. Radio Juxtapoz was on the road for the annual Crystal Ship and as we love with the mural festivals we get to see the process, the ideas and the creation of so many works from so many different practices. Katie...
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136: Bond Truluv
Hong Kong was the center of the art world a few weeks back, as Basel week set the stage for the prominent art capital to get some much overdue love from the pandemic era shutdowns. Juxtapoz, and mainly Radio Juxtapoz, was there for HK Walls, the esteemed mural fest celebrating its 9th edition…
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135: Cathrin Hoffmann
We love when an old friend becomes a new friend all at once. We have known and featured the works of German-artist Cathrin Hoffmann many times through the years and one of the things we love about her practice of going from digital to analog all while keeping the spirit of something from another...
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134: Johanna Bath
The first thing we researched when we came across the paintings of Johanna Bath was this simple declaration "I am madly in love with life." That is a great place to start, because sometimes a painter just needs to love the life they are inspired by. Maybe, in her distorted and almost hazy...
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133: Ben Wakeling
On the occasion of his newest solo show, Abstract Figurativism: Loving Fiercely, at BSMT in London's Dalston, Radio Juxtapoz sat down with Ben Wakeling for a special conversation about art, healing, community, loss, grief and love. As the Artist in Residence of the North London Trust NHS Arts...
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132: Christian Rex van Minnen
Christian Rex van Minnen and I decided to talk on Valentine's Day. He was about to be announced as the cover artist for the SPRING 2024 Juxtapoz Quarterly and, like two old friends should do, we wanted to have a talk on a day where sharing your feelings is a rite of passage. Over the years, the...
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